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 OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE had been the enemies of Chrysostom, were gradually disposed, by the firmness of the Roman pontiff, to restore the honours of that venerable name. At the pious solicitation of the clergy and people of Constantinople, his relics, thirty years after his

death, were transported from their obscure sepulchre to the royal city. The emperor Theodosius advanced to receive them as far as Chalcedon; and, falling prostrate on the coffin, implored, in the name of his guilty parents, Arcadius and Eudoxia, the forgiveness of the injured saint.

Yet a reasonable doubt may be entertained, whether, any stain of hereditary guilt could be derived from Arcadius to his successor. Eudoxia was a young and beautiful woman, who in- dulged her passions and despised her husband ; count John enjoyed, at least, the familiar confidence of the empress ; and the public named him as the real father of Theodosius the younger. The birth of a son was accepted, however, by the pious husband, as an event the most fortunate and honourable to himself, to his family, and to the eastern world ; and the royal infant, by an unprecedented favour, was invested with the titles of Caesar and Augustus. In less than four years artenvards, Eudoxia, in the bloom of youth, was destroyed by the consequences of a miscarriage ; and this untimely death confounded the prophecy of a holy bishop, who, amidst the universal joy, had ventured